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Author	desbma
Recipients	desbma
Date	2015-09-17.20:08:04
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Message-id	<1442520485.03.0.419427125487.issue25156@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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This is related to issue25063 (https://bugs.python.org/issue25063). Trying to use sendfile internally in shutil.copyfileobj was considered risky because of special Python files that expose a file descriptor but wrap it to add special behavior (eg: GzipFile). I believe such risk does not exist for shutil.copyfile, and it would be possible to use sendfile if available.

This is related to issue25063 (https://bugs.python.org/issue25063).

Trying to use sendfile internally in shutil.copyfileobj was considered risky because of special Python files that expose a file descriptor but wrap it to add special behavior (eg: GzipFile).

I believe such risk does not exist for shutil.copyfile, and it would be possible to use sendfile if available.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2015-09-17 20:08:05	desbma	set	recipients: + desbma
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2015-09-17 20:08:04	desbma	create